Personal History His systems were failing. The challenge was to understand what had sustained them for so long. January 1, 2018 Homeostasis holds complex systems together invisibly; we notice only its failures.Illustration by Gérard DuBois The call came at three in the morning. My mother, in New…

Photo-Illustration: Stevie Remsberg; Photos: Getty Images Get Ask Polly delivered weekly. By submitting your email, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Policy. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Dear Polly, Why am I so lazy? As long as I can…

Americans got tired of big social media in 2017. Or at least, we stopped wanting to look at it, and we stopped pretending to like it. This feels true to me as someone who uses the internet every day, but I also know it’s true because when The Verge partnered with Reticle Research to conduct a…

It's past midnight. Over the whump of the wipers and the screech of the fan belt, we lurch through the side streets of Southeast Portland in a battered white van, double-checking our toolkit: flashlight, binoculars, duct tape, scissors, watch caps, rawhide gloves, vinyl gloves, latex gloves, trash…

Miners and Consensus: Part 1 of 2 Published inKeep Network · 10 min read· Jan 10, 2018 -- The Consensus Layer Illusion Ethereum is a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts: applications that run exactly as programmed without any possibility of downtime, censorship, fraud or third party…

One day while walking around Shinjuku, a major hub for government and business in Tokyo, Japan, I noticed a shelter built by a homeless man. It looked semi-permanent, but more importantly, had solar panels on it. I thought this was very different than the homeless I encountered in my former city of…

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My new year’s resolution was to give up on reading Twitter and Facebook. I gave up on the feeds because they were making me angry. A lot of times I was angry because of politics, but even on non-political things, the feeds seemed like they were full of conflict and stress. I can’t tell you how much…

With a few minor exceptions, there are really only two ways to say “tea” in the world. One is like the English term—té in Spanish and tee in Afrikaans are two examples. The other is some variation of cha, like chay in Hindi. Both versions come from China. How they spread around the world offers a…

Well, shit. I’ve been watching this situation for a few years, and assuming it would just blow over so we wouldn’t have to talk about it here in this place where we are supposed to be busy improving our lives. But a collective insanity has sprouted around the new field of ‘cryptocurrencies’, causing…

To read an annotated version of this article, complete with interviews with scientists and links to further reading, click here. I. ‘Doomsday’ Peering beyond scientific reticence. It is, I promise, worse than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise,…

Twice a day in our house, we turn on a projector that casts cartoon music videos on a blank stretch of wall. The songs are catchy and bright and usually keep our toddler captivated for the amount of time we need him to hold still. “There are no monsters who live in our home,” goes one of my…

The first thought that comes to mind staring at the photograph above is: This has got to be fake. The B-2 stealth bomber looks practically pasted onto the field. The flag is unfurled just so. The angle feels almost impossible, shot directly down from above. And yet, it’s real, the product of lots of…

April 26, 2017 What Bullets Do to Bodies x x x By Jason Fagone x x x April 26, 2017 The gun debate would change in an instant if Americans witnessed the horrors that trauma surgeons confront every day. Photographs by Finlay Mackay 1 The first thing Dr. Amy Goldberg told me is that this article would…

This story deals with topics that may cause trauma invoked by memories of past abuse for survivors and intergenerational survivors of the residential school system. Dennis spotted the cigarettes on their dorm supervisor’s bed. He hesitated a moment, then stuffed the pack of Rothmans King Size into…

Two mountain climbers died near the top of Mount Everest in 2016. Their bodies lay frozen there for a year. Then a journey began to bring them home. In 2016, three Indian climbers died trying to summit Mount Everest. Two of them were abandoned near the top. This is the story of the quest, a year…

Let's be honest, we've all dreamed about flying at least once. Well, paraglider Jean-Baptiste Chandelier, shows us what that feeling might look like in real life. Sit back, relax and take a paraglide ride around the world, from the French Alps to the coast of South Africa. TikTok:…

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TM Audio subscribers can listen to this article. Subscribe today for audio stories, bonus podcast episodes, and much more. Already a subscriber? . Every once in a while, Edwin Debrow dreams that he is a boy again. He is standing in a field of freshly mowed grass. It is a warm day, with no clouds in…

Tony Zhou 16 min read· Dec 3, 2017 -- Every Frame a Painting is officially dead. Nothing sinister; we just decided to end it, rather than keep on making stuff. The existing videos will, of course, remain online. But there won’t be any new ones. The following is the script for what was supposed to be…

It is a beautiful hand: strong, with long, slender fingers and smooth skin, its nails ridgeless and pink. If you didn’t know Jonathan Koch–if you first met him, say, on the courts at the Calabasas Tennis & Swim Club–you might not suspect that his hand previously belonged to someone else. The…

See how this article appeared when it was originally published on NYTimes.com. A huge government apartment complex in Tokiwadaira, Japan, has become known for lonely deaths.Credit...Ko Sasaki for The New York Times TOKIWADAIRA, Japan — Cicadas, every Japanese schoolchild knows, lie underground for…

“Anything you want. Anyone you want. Anywhere you want. Anyway! Anyway!” —Priests, “Pink White House” (2017) Imagine you are in an airport, and you have forgotten to eat lunch. It’s a mistake you will pay for with a dull, expensive dinner. Hungry, meandering, you happen upon one of those iPads that…

A complete retelling of this episode using emojis by writer and producer Cara Rose DeFabio Tech analysts estimate that over six billion emojis are sent each day. Emojis, which started off as a collection of low-resolution pixelated images from Japan, have become a well-established and graphically…

Alles begann damit, dass ich zurückfragte, nur dieses eine Mal. Die Tankstelle steht am Rande Hamburgs, ob im Norden oder Süden, ist nicht wichtig. Doch es wäre Unterlassung, zu verschweigen, dass ihr etwas Sentimentales anhaftet, jedenfalls in meinen Augen. Frühe Aufbrüche in Urlaube hat sie mit…

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Fiction Cat Person December 4, 2017 Photograph by Elinor Carucci for The New Yorker Margot met Robert on a Wednesday night toward the end of her fall semester. She was working behind the concession stand at the artsy movie theatre downtown when he came in and bought a large popcorn and a box of Red…

Acht Jahre nachdem in einem italienischen Dorf eine Familie ins Unglück stürzte, tiefer und tiefer, je weiter die Zeit voranschritt, ist ein Mann auf dem Weg, ihr neue Hoffnung zu bringen. Niels Birbaumer, klein und weißhaarig, 72 Jahre alt, Professor für Medizinische Psychologie und…

Earlier this May, Gregory Holt had just finished doing the morning rounds at Miami’s Jackson Memorial Hospital, when he got a call about a new patient in the emergency room. He went down with seven colleagues to find an unconscious 70-year-old man with breathing problems and signs of septic shock.…

When I was very young, before I was on the internet — even before the internet was really a thing you could “go on” — I would dial into BBSs (bulletin board systems). BBSs were kind of like private, micro-internets that people set up in their houses. You had to use a dial-up modem to connect to…

Once upon a time, long before I began selling my face by the acre for features on VICE dot com, I worked other jobs. There was one in particular that really had an impact on me: writing fake reviews on TripAdvisor. Restaurant owners would pay me £10 and I’d write a positive review of their place,…

Press enter or click to view image in full size Owen Williams 5 min read· Sep 19, 2017 -- Another year, another phone announcement. On September 12 Apple unveiled its tenth-anniversary iPhone fittingly named the ‘iPhone X’ and showed off what it calls the “future of phones” featuring a fancy…

Teilen E-Mail Vor wenigen Wochen machte auf Twitter das Hashtag #IchbinAntifa die Runde. Ich habe nicht partizipiert, denn ich fühle mich nicht als Teil der Antifa. Sie ist für mich „nur“ eine der (selbst)organisierten Ausdrucksformen der Idee „Antifaschismus“ und eine der Konsequenzen dieser…

Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan Feature How Google used artificial intelligence to transform Google Translate, one of its more popular services — and how machine learning is poised to reinvent computing itself. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan By Dec. 14, 2016 Prologue: You Are What You…